Debates

Question 1

Nature/nurture

Answer 1

Nature: suggests that our ability to produce speech is centred in one hemisphere

Question 2

Individual/situational

Answer 2

Individual- suggests that split-brain patients differ in their ability to complete visual and tactile tasks

Question 3

Psychology as a science

Answer 3

Highly standardised procedure, each participant completing visual and tactile tasks in the same way.
The conclusion that the right hemisphere cannot produce language is falsifiable